Don Yaeger Quotes
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
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There has been a great list of players who cut their teeth in Europe.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials
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Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.
